Local activities: Walking and cycling in Thetford Forest, with marked walking and cycling trails, children's play areas, cafe, toilets and small shop and visitors centre. High Lodge has bicycle hire and the Go Ape tree-top assault course. Brandon Country Park has cheaper parking and a small cafe and visitors centre Bird watching - Lakenheath Fen, with a visitors centre is only a couple of miles away. A wetland that is home to marsh harriers, hobbies, bearded tits, reed and sedge warblers nest, as well as breeding golden orioles and cranes in the summer. See RSPB website for further details. Weeting Heath is one of the few places in the country to see stone curlews, open from April to September with small cafe. Welney Wildfowl and Wetland Trust has year round activities, including dawn viewing of thousands of migrating swans in winter. Willow Holt is also an hour away from several important reserves on the North Norfolk Coast.
Shopping Both Hockwold and Feltwell have small local shops and pubs. Feltwell also has a fish and chip shop and chinese takeaway. Brandon is our closest small town, which has Aldi and Tesco supermarkets and several cafes and takeaways.